Listening to Killers
Lessons Learned from My Twenty Years as a Psychological Expert Witness in Murder Cases
Format:Paperback
Publisher:University of California Press
Published:13th Feb '15
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Listening to Killers offers an inside look at twenty years' worth of murder files from Dr. James Garbarino, a leading expert psychological witness who listens to killers so that he can testify in court. The author offers detailed accounts of how killers travel a path that leads from childhood innocence to lethal violence in adolescence or adulthood. He places the emotional and moral damage of each individual killer within a larger scientific framework of social, psychological, anthropological, and biological research on human development. By linking individual cases to broad social and cultural issues and illustrating the social toxicity and unresolved trauma that drive some people to kill, Dr. Garbarino highlights the humanity we share with killers and the role of understanding and empathy in breaking the cycle of violence.
"This book should become the definitive text on the subject." - STARRED REVIEW Library Journal "Garbarino's knowledge, compassion, insight, and unmatched experience provide us with an amazing opportunity to learn the path that lead children to violence... Please - buy this book for yourself and for every single person you know. I did." -- Josh Eudowe eA Risk Management Group "Garbarino is a master storyteller and a graceful, elegant writer who brings the complex science to life in dramatically rendered personal histories. It is a narrative style that makes for clear science and riveting reading. Be prepared to change your mind. I did." -- Dan Clayton St. Lawrence University Alumni Magazine "Jim is a master storyteller and a graceful, elegant writer who brings complex science to life in dramatically rendered personal histories. It is a narrative style that makes for clear science and riveting reading. Be prepared to change your mind. I did." -- Daniel Clayton St. Lawrence University Alumni Magazine
ISBN: 9780520282872
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
Weight: 499g
312 pages